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    “My parents always thought about themselves, never about me.” This meaningful quote said by Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden relates to every main protagonist. In The Secret Garden, Mary Lennox is one of the main protagonists who is an orphan from India. Her parents were killed so she was forced to go live with her uncle in Yorkshire, England. She has grown up taking care of herself and nobody else since her parents did not care about her. When she gets to England, she learns to take care of other

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    In the story, “The Secret Garden,” Mary learns valuable lessons that will not only change her life for the better but the lives of others around her positively. As states Frances Hodgson Burnett; “Tha' an' me are a good bit alike," he said. "We was wove out of th' same cloth. We're neither of us good lookin' an' we're both of us as sour as we look. We've got the same nasty tempers, both of us, I'll warrant..." This quote shows that Ben Weatherstaff notices that he and Mary have nasty tempers.

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    Quotation: Important Quotations Explained The Secret Garden, Mary called it when she thought of it. She loved the name, and she loved the feeling that when the old walls shut in no one knew where she was. It looked like being shut out of the entire world in a fairy place. The little books she had read and adored were fairy-story books, and she had read about the secret gardens in some of them . Sometimes people slept there for hundred years, and she found that to be rather stupid.

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    What is happiness, where does it come from these are the question that is answered by The Secret Garden? In the story The Secret Garden all the main character learn a lesson or a theme that theme is from grief and sadness there will be happiness. In The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, there is four character that reveals the theme of the story those characters being Ms.Medlock, Colin, Lord Craven, and Mary. all of the character goes through an ark of grief to happiness Ms. Medlock is

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    The Secret Garden and British Culture The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Deborah Hautzig was first published in 1911. It takes place in Yorkshire, England at Misselthwaite manor. It is a story about a ten year old Anglo-Indian girl named Mary Lennox. Mary lives with her parents who neglect her, leaving her in the care of servants. An outbreak of cholera, an infectious disease that causes severe watery diarrhea, which can lead to dehydration and even death if untreated, caused her parents

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    “The secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.” This is a quote said in the movie, the Secret Garden. In the movie, the Secret Garden, based on the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the theme is trying to show you that you have to learn to open your heart and trust again even after you lose something or someone very close to you, this is shown in all four of the dynamic characters, Mary, Colin, Lord Craven, and Medlock. “She’s so sour; I heard she never cried when

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    “A garden. I’ve stolen a garden. Maybe it’s dead anyhow.” Mary Lennox utters these strong words as she first realizes that there is a garden in her new home, a garden that is more than it’s physical appearance. This is Mary’s garden now, Mary’s heart. As the story The Secret Garden plays out it’s Mary’s job to decide if she will accept that the garden is simply dead or if she will search for life within it’s abandoned features, same as Mrs. Medlock, Colin Craven, and Lord Craven, but within not only

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    In the book the secret garden by Frances Hodgsen burnett . The main charter is known as Mary Lennox a ten year old girl that has left her dead parents in India to live with her uncle in Yorkshire , England . mary goes in as a spoiled unloved and unloving monster to a girl who is loved and caring . Mary likes to play with animals and spend time with her friend . The time setting of the book the secret garden is the early 1800’s in Yorkshire, England . The area that Mary was staying

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    “I was angry. I never cried. I didn’t know how to cry.” This quote was said by Mary Lennox, in the movie The Secret Garden, based on the book, wrote by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Mary is an orphan, brought into her uncle, Lord Craven’s, house, Misselthwaite Manor. Her uncle took her in after a terrible earthquake in India, that sadly took the lives of her parents. Mary never really had any friends and was always alone, her parents were not very caring nor affectionate to her, and never really paid

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    The Secret Garden A garden that holds your secrets, that is a secret itself, holds a special spot in the book “The Secret Garden”. The garden is described as an overgrown hidden beauty that has not been seen for ten years. The woman who created the garden passed away because of an accident; in turn, her husband becomes bitter and wrathful. The door which led to the garden was locked and the key was buried while the orders were given for no one to enter the

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